Scalextric C3325 Ford GT40 P1075, Daytona 1969 (C)

1/32 scale slot car, ready to run on all 1/32 and 1/24 scale non-digital tracks. The most successful GT40 of all, 2-time LeMans winner P1075, as it appeared at Daytona in 1969. With working headlights.

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The latest issue of Model Car Racing magazine is here with special features on how you can set up race meets and more.

MCR89 Model Car Racing magazine September/October 2016

Model cars are designed to be raced and this issue includes feature articles on how to use wireless controllers, how set up a full racing program for two to 20 drivers and how to provide skid areas and hedge barriers for the outside edges of the track. There are full reports on the prototypes’ racing background, specifications and the performance and details of the 1/32 scale models of the 1970 McLaren M7C Formula 1, 1977 Porsche 935/4 LeMans, 1990 E30 BMW BTCC, 1990 Ford Sierra RS500 BTCC, 1994 Ferrari F40 IMSA, 2013 Audi R18 e-tron quattro LeMans and 2015 Corvette C7.R Daytona. There are plans so you can assemble a 2-Lane version of the 2-Lane LeMans Bugatti Circuit on a 5 x 9-foot and on a 10 x 18-foot tabletop using snap-together plastic track. There is also a racetrack plan for an HO scale AFX 4-Lane LeMans Bugatti Circuit on a 4-x8 foot tabletop.

The first-ever 1/32 scale models of the prototype for the 1961 E Type Jaguar, the E2A from Le Mans ’60 are here as a ready-to-race car and as a cast-resin kit:

Slot Classic CJ46 Jaguar E2A – Le Mans ‘60

The prototype for 1961 E Type Jaguar, the E2A from Le Mans ’60. Even though the English company originally wanted to use this car as a test car for the subsequent production of the legendary Jaguar E Type, the intervention of the American team of Briggs Cunningham resulted in its participation in Le Mans in 1960. The model is painted to reproduce the version from that race (with the double blue stripes in the nose, which were removed after a crash) considering its nicer looks and historical importance.

Slot Classic CJ46KPP Jaguar E2A – Le Mans ‘60 PAINTED BODY KIT

Even though the English company originally wanted to use this car as a test car for the subsequent production of the legendary Jaguar E Type, the intervention of the American team of Briggs Cunningham resulted in its participation in Le Mans in 1960. The model is pated to reproduce the proactive version from that race (with the double blue stripes in the nose, which were removed after a crash) considering its nicer looks and historical importance.

H&R HRMX1 50,000 RPM FK130 Size (rear motor leads) motor (Crusher)

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This may be the best set Scalextric has ever offered—Trans-Am action with full race lap timing, counting and control plus wireless controllers. Note that this set is the only source for 1969 Mustang paint scheme and for the number 9 Camaro!

The “Crocodile” Audi R8 is on the way with three other new Scalextric cars. Be sure to pre-order yours now.

The famous crocodile livery of one of Pheonix Racing’s Audi R8s (the other depicting a kangaroo) proved to be a head turner at the annual Bathurst 12 hour endurance race in 2015 at Mount Panorama. The R8 finished 9th overall, giving the team yet another respectable result with one of the most recognisable liveries on the circuit.

Scalextric C3697 Ford XB Falcon 1976 “street”—PRE-ORDER NOW!

With modified versions appearing regularly in iconic Hollywood films, the Ford Falcon XB is a remodel of the popular XA Falcon. First hitting the streets in 1976 the XB Falcon had been given a face lift with what was considered to be a “less aggressive” nose and an improved interior to enable better visibility, which had been a down point on the previous XA model.

Scalextric C3756 McLaren P1 – Green—PRE-ORDER NOW!

Considered the successor to the McLaren F1, the McLaren P1 sold out in November 2013 having only been delivered to retail customers within the UK in October 2013. The Scalextric model captures the McLaren P1 two-door coupe in green, following successful releases in yellow and red.

Robb Gravett and his Ford Sierra RS500 was able to win the 1990 British Touring Car Championship (BTCC) with his team Trakstar Motorsport. Despite a disappointing start to the season, Robb was able to bounce back and win nine times that year, including this race at Silverstone in 1990. Robb got the fastest lap time and claimed another win for the imposing Ford Sierra RS500.

Here’s a very simple conversion project for anyone wanting to try kitbashing for the first time. It’s an old Revell Highway Pioneers Jaguar XK120 body mounted on a completely box-stock Sebring running chassis from a Monogram Cooper-Ford. The Jag body is long out of production but examples of it turn up frequently on eBay. This project, however, illustrates the ease of adapting the Sebring chassis to almost any body you need a simple, inexpensive, and adjustable chassis for.

We chose the Sebring chassis as used in the Monogram Cooper-Ford because it comes with a set of early 60s wheels that look just perfect with the Jaguar body and are very similar, if not identical, to wheels that were used on Jaguars and other production sports cars in SCCA competition in the 60s. In addition, the width through the wheels and tires was a perfect match for the Jaguar shell, which had had the original skirted rear fenders opened up. MRRC and Monogram cars that use the Sebring chassis come with quite a variety of different wheels as used on the various cars being modeled. You can select as a donor car the one that has the wheels you are looking for or you can buy the complete running chassis without a body and put inserts of your choice into the plain disc wheels or use other wheels and tires completely.

You can see in this photo that the chassis needed only to haver its wheelbase adjusted longer to fit the Jaguar body. To do that we had to remove the two plastic chassis inserts, shown to the left of the chassis, that held the wheelbase to the length needed for the Cooper model.

Here you see the body mounts we made from styrene sheet and tube, available at almost any local hobby shop under the name of Evergreen or Plastruct. As the car stands right now we could mount the body, put it on the track, and run it, but of course we are going to restore the body with a new paint job, decals, interior, and detail parts, which we will show you in a future newsletter. Getting the car to this point only took a couple of hours. Depending on how much paint and detail work you want to do you can easily have a car ready to race on your track in an afternoon.

Roy Salvadori and Cotton Owens

A couple of issues ago we devoted this entire newsletter to a tribute to Carroll Shelby. Now comes word of the passing of Roy Salvadori, Shelby’s driving partner in his 1959 LeMans victory. Salvadori also competed in Formula One from 1952 through 1962 and managed the Cooper F1 team in 1966-67. The drivers whose exploits we followed so avidly in our youth are getting fewer and fewer, but their achievements live on in our memory. Rest in peace, Roy.

We also note that Cotton Owens, who had a long NASCAR career as a driver and a car builder and was elected to the NASCAR Hall of Fame, passed away recently. He, too will be missed.

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